The Garden of Lost and Found by Dale Peck

“The Garden of Lost and Found” is a garden of self-­absorbed overreaching, a compost of glutted detail, absurd simile, strained and repetitive metaphor, forced aphorism...
-NY Times

Synopsis

Inheriting a New York City brownstone after the death of the mother he never knew, twenty-one-year-old James Ramsay learns that he has been infected with HIV by a sometime partner, a situation that culminates in his relocation to the brownstone and his moral ambiguity about the residence's elderly tenant.

Dale Peck was born on Long Island and is the author of several novels, including "Martin and John", a collection of short stories, and a family memoir. His short fiction has appeared in "Artforum", "BOMB", "The London Review of Books", " The New Republic", "The New York Times", and "The Village Voice". He also teaches creative writing and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. He lives in New York.